Edith Bouvier Beale Quotes

#1. The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

Horace

#2. I don't think there's any point in meeting anybody who doesn't like music.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#3. Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.

Philippa Gregory

#4. I'm pulverized by this latest thing!

Edith Bouvier Beale

#5. I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to ... Why else would we have feet?

Rachel Joyce

#6. To know the pain of too much tenderness.

Kahlil Gibran

#7. There's no better investment than your cleavage." Charlotte smirked. "I believe they teach that in business school.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#8. Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Mother wanted me to come out in a kimono, so we had quite a fight.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#10. God is on the side with the best artillery

Napoleon Bonaparte

#11. We're always the ones stuck while you men fight for the things that are so important to you for reasons we can't understand. We wait, and we wonder, and we hurt." He

Mia Sheridan

#12. The Source is plain for all to see, but not with the eyes of the mind, for they are blinded to Truth.

Martin Cosgrove

#13. Salter is a writer who particularly rewards those for whom reading is an intense pleasure. He is among the very few North American writers all of whose work I want to read, whose as-yet-unpublished books I wait for impatiently.

Susan Sontag

#14. My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life - the idea of a woman's role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That's what keeps me alive, and if I couldn't keep creating that, I'd fall into a bit of heap.

Jane Badler

#15. I tell you if there's anything worse than dealing with a staunch woman... S-T-A-U-N-C-H. There's nothing worse, I'm telling you. They don't weaken, no matter what.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#16. It's the worst thing that ever happened to anybody in America!

Edith Bouvier Beale

#17. I only mark the hours that shine.

Edith Bouvier Beale

#18. I wish I could play the lead role in one movie, one great movie.

Alec Baldwin

#19. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

Chris Roberson

#20. THE QUESTION I MUST ASK MYSELF: DO I TREAT OTHERS BETTER THAN THEY TREAT ME?

John C. Maxwell